Did anyone mention who did this wedding ... It might have been me but the shaky footage is not my style and you should know by now that I don't book ethnic weddings anyway!

I did a Bogen one last weekend though! The first bit all went to plan until they decided to start pre-dinner drinks early. My wife and I were doing both video and stills and do you know how hard it is to get group shots done when the guys alternative is a big jug of beer?? Later during the evening the guys decided that slugging a tankard of beer down wasn't getting the required liquid into their bodies fast enough so they resorted to downing the beer straight from the 1.5 litre jug ...most dropped the jug after emptying it so it smashed on the floor!! Lovely bunch!! During the speeches the groom also decided to show(and tell) Dad how much he loved him ..while Dad was attempting to do his speech of course!! I left everything in the video !!

Chris,
You sure you didn't cover this? I thought you went out of your way to do the indoor fireworks so you could get the "special footage" of the venue burning to the ground while the bride beats the stuffing out of the groom for being a complete idiot for hiring the indoor fireworks.
Honestly I had to stop watching after about a minute I couldn't take anymore and Chris, you know I'm being sarcastic. Can't help it. This morning its very cold here quite a bit below 0 F and getting colder every hour so I need someone to needle since my wife actually went into her office.

I had a close one a year ago at a Greek wedding where the candles on 10' high stands had material similar to a veil wrapped around the stand like a skirt. Yep the one caught fire and caused a bit of chaos!

My assistant caught it all on camera but I left it out of the DVD!!

Our son lives in Montreal and said it was -30 last week ... We are basking in sunshine close to 90F and higher!!

Heh, I couldn't get my wife to move to the next block BUT one of my sons is going to Sydney in the next couple of weeks to visit his good friend who moved there for work. He said he can't wait to go just to get warm.

No offense but I'm kind of taken back by the pompous tone most of you are taking. Not sure if you've spent your lives living in a safety bubbles and are truly clueless about the potential danger here but I can assure you there was next to no risk of "burning the place down" with those fireworks being set off indoors. Granted it was dumb to burn the dress but just because their culture is different doesn't mean you are better than them.

My only concern here would be taking a roman candle shot to the eye. Which well, guess you would have to be pretty unlucky or pretty unaware of whats going on to not duck out of the way.